I'm struggling with Actionscript 2! I'm quite an experienced
Flash(5) developer and have been away from Flash for quite a while.
I am trying to get into AS2 but I'm having trouble understanding
the principles. Could you recommend some good books or online
tutorials to get me going?

One of the things I can't get my head around is assigning
classes to movie clips. As an example, I've written a class which
is a timer that I want to assign to several movie clips on stage.
The timer object needs to be started when it's movie clip registers
an 'onMouseOut' event' and then it does
something when a certain time limit is reached without there
being a 'onMouseOver' event on the movie clip. What would be the
best way to set up this scenario?

The principles are really very much the same .. only real
differences are

1) there is a 'class' syntax for defining classes, instead of
using
prototypes (end result is the same though)
2) there are optional types for variables and functions that
give the
compiler hits about what values are stored in the variable
(or what value a
function returns) so it can pick up errors. The types don't
really 'do'
anything.

There's a few new classes (which are not really part of AS,
but part of the
player object model)
--
Jeckyl